| MD | HB572 | Pass | Increasing from $750 to $1,500 the maximum allowable amount of a credit against the State income tax that provides $5 for each bushel of oyster shells recycled during a taxable year; extending the termination date of the credit to June 30, 2021; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 603 |
| MD | HB1137 | Pass | Altering the tidal fish license and oyster authorization requirements for persons aboard a boat who are using diving apparatus to catch oysters for commercial purposes in the waters of the State; prohibiting more than two commercial oyster divers fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 518 |
| MD | HB1172 | Pass | Repealing a requirement that the Department of Natural Resources hold a certain hearing within 60 days after a person who holds a certain license to catch oysters received a citation for a certain offense; requiring the Department to hold a certain h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 520 |
| MD | HB1485 | Pass | Altering, from 5 to 10 feet, the distance from certain piers, wharves, or other structures in certain counties within which the owner has exclusive use of the area for growing oysters in a certain manner; altering the manner by which oysters may be g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 531 |
| MD | HB301 | Pass | Providing that, in a prosecution for certain sexual offenses, evidence that the defendant committed sexually assaultive behavior before or after the offense for which the defendant is on trial may be admissible for certain reasons; requiring that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 362 |
| MD | HB814 | Pass | Authorizing all county boards of education, rather than only certain county boards of education, to waive the requirement that a participating employer reimburse the county for the cost of the premium for workers' compensation coverage provided to st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 207 |
| MD | HB948 | Pass | Exempting from certain real property recordation, transfer, and excise taxes and certificate of title fees certain transfers of real property and certain vehicles from a revocable trust to a beneficiary of the trust as a result of the death of the se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 316 |
| MD | HB1141 | Pass | Altering the application of certain provisions of law exempting agricultural buildings used for agritourism from a certain permit requirement to apply statewide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 241 |
| MD | HB1566 | Pass | Establishing a certain process for valuing a water company or a sewage disposal company that is the subject of a certain acquisition; prohibiting a person from acquiring a controlling interest in certain water services or sewage disposal providers wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 219 |
| MD | HB119 | Pass | Authorizing an individual who holds a Deer Management Permit in Calvert County to use a shotgun or breech loading center fired rifle approved by the Department of Natural Resources to hunt deer throughout the year, including all deer hunting seasons,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 110 |
| MD | HB1229 | Pass | Authorizing a landowner, without the approval of the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation, to erect and display on land subject to a certain easement a certain sign or outdoor advertising display for a certain purpose; authorizing the F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 66 |
| MD | HB1656 | Pass | Authorizing the State Real Estate Commission to transfer up to $500,000 to the Real Estate Guaranty Fund from the State Real Estate Commission Fund if the amount in the Guaranty Fund falls below $300,000 and the Commission is projected to have an ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 76 |
| MD | HB1786 | Engross | Establishing the Richard W. Collins III Leadership With Honor Scholarship Program; establishing eligibility criteria that require an individual to be a member of the Reserve Officer Training Corps, a certain minority student, and a student at a histo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) |
| MD | HB1155 | Intro | Specifying that a soil percolation test for an unimproved property remains valid for the property if a satisfactory soil percolation test is filed with the appropriate unit of the county in which the property is located and the property has not been ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB29 | Intro | Authorizing a person to apply for preliminary approval of a handgun permit without completing a certified firearms training course; requiring the Secretary to investigate an application for a handgun permit; requiring the Secretary to issue prelimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Recommitted to Judiciary (Delegate Vallario) |
| MD | HB1580 | Engross | Providing that the County Commissioners of Calvert County or the official authorized to contract for the county shall invite proposals for certain contracts by publishing notice in eMaryland Marketplace and in other forms of social media or websites ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB352 | Intro | Requiring the General Assembly to make available to the public live and archived video streaming of each meeting of the Senate of Maryland, the House of Delegates of Maryland, and a standing committee of the General Assembly, including any hearings o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Unfavorable Report by House Rules and Executive Nominations |
| MD | HB356 | Intro | Prohibiting multimember delegate districts; creating the General Assembly and Congressional Legislative Redistricting and Apportionment Commission; requiring the Commission to divide the State to create certain General Assembly legislative districts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Unfavorable Report by House Rules and Executive Nominations |
| MD | HB731 | Intro | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to alter the limit on the number of days that the General Assembly may continue its session except under certain circumstances; altering the vote of the membership of each House of the General Assem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Unfavorable Report by House Rules and Executive Nominations |
| MD | HB1022 | Intro | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to require congressional districts to conform to certain standards and that due regard be given to natural boundaries and boundaries of political subdivisions; and submitting the amendment to the qu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Unfavorable Report by House Rules and Executive Nominations |
| MD | HB943 | Engross | Limiting to one time for each telephone number the number of times a telephone company may assess a fee to a customer for keeping certain telephone numbers unpublished; and authorizing a telephone company to assess the fee each time a customer change...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB962 | Engross | Establishing an auxiliary winery permit; authorizing the Comptroller to issue the permit to a holder of a Class 4 limited winery permit for use at a single location off the licensed premises anywhere in the State subject to certain restrictions; auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1549 | Intro | Requiring local governments to fully comply with and support federal immigration law; prohibiting local governments from restricting certain individuals from requesting, obtaining, sending, receiving, or maintaining certain immigration information; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB353 | Intro | Providing that, in a prosecution for certain sexual offenses, evidence that the defendant committed sexually assaultive behavior at a certain time may be admissible for certain reasons; requiring that the State file a certain motion to introduce evid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB361 | Intro | Exempting a user of an on-site sewage disposal system from paying the Bay Restoration Fee under certain circumstances; authorizing certain fee revenue collected for the Bay Restoration Fund to be used for financial assistance to certain homeowners fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB1308 | Intro | Requiring a State or local correctional facility with custody of an undocumented immigrant who is serving a sentence in the facility for conviction of a crime to transfer the individual to the United States Department of Homeland Security on request ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB125 | Engross | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully shining, pointing, or focusing the beam of a laser pointer on an individual operating a motor vehicle or vessel; and applying a penalty of imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or a fine not exceeding $2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB348 | Intro | Providing that, beginning in fiscal year 2020, any appropriation that increases by operation of law is required to have its mandated level of spending increased by the lesser of the amount of the existing formula calculation or 1% less than the amoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB357 | Intro | Altering the time to pay certain manufacturer's license fees from annually to one time; altering the amount of certain manufacturer's license fees; providing that prorating of certain fees for certain licenses does not apply to a license for which th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB579 | Intro | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an inmate who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; and providing for the pros...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB1242 | Intro | Establishing a solar photovoltaic recycling fee; requiring a person installing a solar electric generating facility in the State to pay the fee beginning October 1, 2018; establishing the Solar Photovoltaic Recycling Fund; requiring 20% of the first ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1298 | Intro | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim March as Maryland Sportsmanship Month; requiring the proclamation to urge local recreation and parks departments in the State to observe Maryland Sportsmanship Month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB732 | Intro | Requiring certain research facilities using dogs or cats for scientific research purposes to take certain steps to provide for the adoption of a certain dog or cat that is no longer needed for research purposes; authorizing certain research facilitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB332 | Intro | Authorizing a campaign finance entity to distribute campaign material purchased under the authority of a prior treasurer of the campaign finance entity responsible for the campaign material.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB576 | Intro | Authorizing a homeowner to submit a copy of the homeowner's income tax return for the previous taxable year, or a letter from a certified public accountant or tax preparer certifying the homeowner's income as proof of income for a grant or loan to up...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB1151 | Intro | Altering requirements for the annual calibration checks required for speed monitoring systems; requiring a local jurisdiction with a speed monitoring system program to publish online certain information; authorizing a person who receives a citation f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB1377 | Intro | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax under certain circumstances for certain retirement income of an individual who is at least 65 years old or totally disabled or whose spouse is totally disabled; providing for the calc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB18 | Intro | Repealing the nonrefundable $100 fee charged by the State Department of Assessments and Taxation for processing articles of dissolution and certificates of cancellation filed by certain business entities with the Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB875 | Intro | Repealing a requirement that an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code be enacted during the calendar year in which the taxable year begins that the amendment affects in order for the amendment not to impact the determination of Maryland taxable inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB398 | Intro | Repealing the requirement that the Secretary of State Police find that a person has a good and substantial reason to carry, wear, or transport a handgun before issuing a handgun permit to the person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB739 | Intro | Exempting retired federal and out-of-state law enforcement officers who reside in Maryland from being charged an application fee for a permit to carry, wear, or transport a handgun.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1413 | Intro | Altering the requirements from a minimum of 16 hours to 8 hours of instruction by a qualified handgun instructor for firearms training courses that an initial applicant for a permit to carry, wear, or transport a handgun must successfully complete; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1522 | Intro | Specifying that a permit to carry a handgun issued to an individual in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C., or West Virginia is valid in Maryland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1509 | Intro | Requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, beginning January 1, 2019, to make copper plans available in the Individual Exchange to certain individuals, notwithstanding certain provisions of law; requiring the Exchange to certify a certain health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-05
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1799 | Intro | Altering a limitation on claiming the income tax credit for eligible long-term care insurance premiums for more than 1 year with respect to the same insured individual; repealing a prohibition on claiming the credit if an individual was covered by lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB351 | Intro | Requiring a certain educational accountability program to include certain school quality indicators; altering the maximum percentage of certain academic indicators in a certain composite score to be 80%; repealing a prohibition that certain indicator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB355 | Intro | Establishing the Education Monitoring Unit in the State; providing that the Unit is an independent unit; establishing the Investigator General Selection and Review Commission in the Unit; requiring the Commission to appoint the Investigator General i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means) |
| MD | HB374 | Intro | Exempting business personal property from the property tax imposed by a county or municipal corporation, subject to certain exceptions; requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to identify certain provisions of law and submit a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-26
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB380 | Intro | Providing an exemption from personal property tax for property that is owned by a business that has organized under the laws of Maryland during the current tax year or that has relocated its headquarters to Maryland during the current tax year; exemp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-26
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB957 | Intro | Repealing a requirement that certain motor fuel tax rates be adjusted in future years based on growth in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-26
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
